Gossypium barbadense is widely cultivated because of its extra‐long staple cotton with
superior luster, silkiness and high yield. These economically important traits were selected …

Background Understanding the evolutionary genetics of modern crop phenotypes has a
dual relevance to evolutionary biology and crop improvement. Modern upland cotton …

The single-celled cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fiber provides an excellent model to
investigate how human selection affects phenotypic evolution. To gain insight into the …

Cotton is an important natural fiber crop and economic crop worldwide. The quality of cotton
fiber directly determines the quality of cotton textiles. Identifying cotton fiber development …

Sea-island cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) is one of the most valuable cotton species
due to its silkiness, luster, long staples, and high strength, but its fiber development …

Cotton (Gossypium) fiber is the most prevalent natural product used in the textile industry.
The two major cultivated species, G. hirsutum (Gh) and G. barbadense (Gb), are …

Background The morphogenesis of single-celled cotton fiber includes extreme elongation
and staged cell wall differentiation. Designing strategies for improving cotton fiber for textiles …

Pima cotton (G ossypium barbadense) is widely cultivated because of its long, strong seed
trichomes ('fibers') used for premium textiles. These agronomically advanced fibers were …

Background Cotton fiber is the world's leading natural fiber used in the manufacture of
textiles. Gossypium is also the model plant in the study of polyploidization, evolution, cell …

A central question in evolutionary biology concerns the developmental processes by which
new phenotypes arise. An exceptional example of evolutionary innovation is the single …